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Netflix had a very big night. | Photo: Al Bello / Getty Images for Netflix Netflix peaked at “65 million concurrent streams” during the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul last night, according to Most Valuable Promotions, the promoter for the fight. Those streams went out to 60 million households globally, the group said in a press release shared with The Verge via email. That’s more than twice the traffic Netflix could see for its Christmas Day NFL stream this year,

Netflix had a very big night. | Photo: Al Bello / Getty Images for Netflix Netflix peaked at “65 million concurrent streams” during the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul last night, according to Most Valuable Promotions, the promoter for the fight. Those streams went out to 60 million households globally, the group said in a press release shared with The Verge via email. That’s more than twice the traffic Netflix could see for its Christmas Day NFL stream this year,

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images Complaints about unwanted telemarketing calls have dropped for the third straight year, the Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday. Reports of such calls have fallen by over 50 percent versus 2021, according to the FTC — a decline that could be thanks in no small part to stepped-up government efforts to fight irritating telemarketing and phone scams.
There were about 33,000 fewer unwanted call complaints during the 2024 fiscal year versu

X users are fleeing to Bluesky and other alternatives since the U.S. presidential election, and celebrities are joining the exodus. Here's a list of famous people who've explicitly said they're ditching the Elon Musk-owned platform in the last week or so:1. Stephen KingProlific author and poster Stephen King left X for Meta-owned Threads this week, stating, "I'm leaving Twitter. Tried to stay, but the atmosphere has just become too toxic."Tweet may have been deletedSEE ALSO:PSA: Your Twitter/X a

The Freo X Ultra packs a lot of features for the price, including the ability to automatically remop your floors when necessary. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Hosting Thanksgiving dinner is fun and all, but the amount of cleaning you have to do afterward can be exhausting. The Narwal Freo X Ultra robot vacuum / mop hybrid can help speed things up, though, and it’s currently down to an all-time low of $849.99 (about $690 off) at Best Buy and Amazon (when you apply the on-pa

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Concept art for Half-Life 2: Episode 3, from the Half-Life 2 20th Anniversary Documentary. | Screenshot: YouTube Unsurprisingly, yesterday’s big Half-Life release wasn’t the sequel to Half-Life 2 or even the third Half-Life 2: Episode entry, but a 20th-anniversary update to Valve’s legendary 2004 game. And given what studio co-founder Gabe Newell has to say on the subject in a 2-hour documentary that the company released in tandem with the update, it seems less likely than ever

AI-generated videos already proliferate on the internet — and now brands are getting in on it. Coca-Cola "reinvented" an old-school holiday-time ad using artificial intelligence, and to say it's not exactly filling social media with good tidings of comfort and joy would be an understatement.The video is a new spin on Coke's "Holidays Are Coming" ad from the 1990s. The original ad features a fleet of Coke trucks decked out in Christmas lights, spreading the holiday spirit as they drive thro

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Getty Images for Netflix © 2024 Netflix’s livestream of the Mike Tyson and Jake Paul boxing match was a mess. I’m not talking about the bout itself — although people had their qualms with that, too — it’s the livestream, which people across the internet complained was plagued by buffering, unstable, and unwatchable muddiness. That doesn’t bode well for Netflix’s live sports ambitions, especially its upcoming Christmas Day NFL games.I had the same ex

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge So, you’ve finally decided to give Bluesky a shot. The social network has come a long way since the early bare-bones days of invite-only signups and recently grew past the 15 million user mark. Along the way, it’s gathered a lot of familiar posting platform features, like direct messages, pinned posts, and the ability to post videos up to 60 seconds in length.But there’s a lot more to it than that, and I’m not only talking about lore. (Yes,

The long-awaited fight between influencer Jake Paul and legendary boxer Mike Tyson is over, and Paul has been declared the winner.The Paul-Tyson fightPaul won the fight via unanimous decision by the judges, CNN reported, with round scores of 80-72, 79-73, and 79-73 in favor of Paul. The New York Post called the fight a "snoozer," however, criticizing both streaming issues on Netflix (where the fight was shown live) and Tyson fighting despite being past his prime.Multiple reports state that Netfl

Image: Playstack / Color Gray Games The Case of the Golden Idol was a rewarding series of point-and-click murder mysteries that became one of my favorite games of 2022. And while I felt there was more story to explore about the titular golden idol, I wasn’t sure if a potential sequel could live up to its clever puzzles and fascinating, slowly unfolding story. Turns out, I had nothing to fear: The Rise of the Golden Idol, the newly launched sequel, easily surpasses the original by improving

A mini moon that will bid farewell to Earth soon may in fact be a small hunk of the big moon — the one that has loomed far longer in the sky than humans have roamed the planet.A follow-up study has taken a closer look at the bus-sized space rock to better understand what it's made of, how fast it's spinning, and where it's traveling. A team of researchers says the mini moon is something in between an S-type asteroid, made of silicates and metal, and a V-type like Vesta, the second-largest

Even the balmy tropics may have once been crushed by colossal masses of ice. A severe ice age dominated Earth, some 720 to 635 million years ago, well before dinosaurs stalked the land. But it's uncertain if the entire world froze over during the glaciations of this long-lived, extreme episode, dubbed "Snowball Earth." Now, new evidence from Colorado, an area that once was located in the tropics, suggests mighty glaciers sprawled over even Earth's warmest regions."This study presents the first p

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Some of the main modules of the International Space Station are nearly a quarter-century old. "That's considered classic for a car," said Bennett Maruca, an astronomer and physicist at the University of Delaware.So it's little surprise one of the earliest chambers, attached in 2000, has sprung a problematic leak. The leak is in Russia's Zvezda service module, an area connecting the module to a docking port, and it was first detected five years ago. But the rate of leakage has increased in 2024,

Online dating as a lesbian can be a joyous experience. Unfortunately, it can also involve having your space invaded by straight people or seeing your ex-girlfriends (and your ex-girlfriends' ex-girlfriends) show up in your feed over and over.Back in 2020, the heteronormative weirdness on the apps got so alienating that many lesbians turned to TikTok as a means of meeting other single lesbians (and it worked). Unfortunately, it's just not realistic to expect a social media app to work like a dati

Most of your devices may come with a built-in speaker, but it's hard to imagine the scenario where it's not worth investing in a Bluetooth speaker, too. SEE ALSO:The 10 best Bluetooth speaker deals ahead of Black Friday
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The Amazon Echo was first released in 2015 and has come a long way since. The brand’s line-up is expansive and includes a variety of Echos. Do you want to be able to video call your family with Echo Show 10's sleek swivel screen? Maximize affordability with the Echo Pop? Or upgrade your kids' rooms with an Echo device just for kids?Smart speakers like Amazon's Echo family of products are a great starting point if you’re looking to get a smarter home because they're affordable and eas

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The Utah Utes and No. 17 Colorado Buffaloes teams go head-to-head this weekend at Folsom Field in Boulder, Colorado. The match will take place on Saturday, Nov. 16, and is scheduled to start at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT.&nbs

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The No. 25 Tulane Green Wave and Navy Midshipmen teams go head-to-head this weekend at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Maryland. The match will take place on Saturday, Nov. 16, and is scheduled to start

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The No. 3 Texas Longhorns and the Arkansas Razorbacks football teams go head-to-head this weekend at Donald W. Reynolds Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The match will take place on Saturday, Nov. 16, and is

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The No. 7 Tennessee Vols and No. 12 Georgia Bulldogs football teams go head-to-head this weekend at Sanford Stadium in Athens, Georgia. The match will take place on Saturday, Nov. 16, and is scheduled to start at 7:30 p

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The No. 1 Oregon Ducks and Wisconsin Badger football teams go head-to-head this weekend at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin. The match will take place on Saturday, Nov. 16, and is scheduled to start at 7:30 p.

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The No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes and the Northwestern Wildcats football teams go head-to-head this weekend at Wrigley Field. It's one of two Northwestern games that will be played at Wrigley while the school builds a new s

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The No. 23 Missouri Tigers and No. 21 South Carolina Gamecocks teams go head-to-head this weekend at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina. The match will take place on Saturday, Nov. 16, and is scheduled t

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The Kansas Jayhawks and No. 6 BYU Cougars football teams go head-to-head this weekend at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo, Utah. The match will take place on Saturday, Nov. 16, and is scheduled to start at 10:15 p.m. ET/

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The No. 17 Clemson Tigers and Pittsburgh Panthers teams go head-to-head this weekend at Acrisure Stadium in Pittsburgh. The match will take place on Saturday, Nov. 16, and is scheduled to start at 12 p.m. ET/9 a.m. PT.&

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The Arizona State Sun Devils and No. 16 Kansas State Wildcats teams go head-to-head this weekend at Bill Snyder Family Stadium in Manhattan, Kansas. The match will take place on Saturday, Nov. 16, and is scheduled to st

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